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A supporter of Jordan Peterson's showed up here today
His account was immediately suspended
Jordan Peterson is an anti-trans activist who has made his name by punching down at the trans community
This instance was explicitly set up to exclude him, Nazis and anyone who would support anti-queer violence
Make SURE that you've read our Community Standards: https://scholar.social/about/more
Because if this bothers you, I'll show you the door, too
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The guy made an account on another instance so that he could message me again and clarify that he's not a supporter of Jordan Peterson's. He just happens to run around defending him to people who have explicitly indicated that they don't want to hear about him on the internet.
This is very different from being a supporter of his somehow
Then he accused me of being authoritarian and being against argumentation and said that I accused JP of being anti-trans "lightly"
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Let me make something clear: "having a debate" about the basic rights and dignity owed to a minority group isn't some sort of pure, intellectual inquiry. Just framing a minority's rights, dignity and equality as a subject that is up for discussion *is* an act of devaluing them.
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@socrates
Maybe 1% of the people you claim are "having a debate about the basic rights and dignity owed to a minority group" actually want to take away rights and dignity of certain minorities.
It is incredibly disingenuous to pretend your ideology is the only one for minority rights and then using minorities as your shield in a culture war.
@jeff @matrix @socrates https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc?t=300 We are part of an information processing entity, culture. Don't cut off massive parts of the system. It will make culture less fit for its purpose: keeping us alive.
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@matrix @socrates I would call it "closing your bubbleâ.